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Boasting an extensive and diverse slate of projects from creators across Canada, BGPD focuses on nurturing and developing both feature films as well as scripted and unscripted television series from concept to script to pitch.  

 

CURRENT DEVELOPMENT SLATE

 

FEATURES

 

BOOB JOB

In this coming-of-age dramedy (think Booksmart meets Thelma and Louise), we meet RYDER, a teenage girl suffering from low self-esteem, who tracks down her musician deadbeat dad WYATT in search of overdue child support to pay for the breast implants she thinks will change her life.  Embarking on a road trip, Ryder and her best friend SOPHIE confront Wyatt, only to discover he’s broke. Realizing he doesn’t recognize the daughter he hasn’t seen in years, the girls conceal their identities to help him in a small-time drug deal with a major payoff, as all the while Ryder secretly hopes to connect with the man who abandoned her. 

Genre: Comedy, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Kimberly Izzo (screenwriter)

Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film & Music

 

THE EVENING CHORUS

James, an RAF airman imprisoned in a German POW camp, turns to birdwatching to escape the relentless oppression while his wife, Rose, falls into a passionate love affair with a Canadian soldier and James' sister Enid loses her home and her lover in the London blitz. Three lives intertwined by nature, love and loss.  Based on the novel by Helen Humphries.

Co-production with Alkaia FIlms

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Helen Humphries (novelist), Adrienne Mitchell (director), Dennis Foon (screenwriter)

Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film & Music, Ontario Media Development Corporation

 

KOSHETZ

Based on actual events.Set in 1919 during a period of political unrest - empires are falling, small nations are emerging, and communism is gradually spreading across Eastern Europe. Koshetz uses his musical talent to aid his country. However, the further he goes, the more he realizes that the idealistic fight he is leading is a mere pawn in the hands of those playing bigger games. Through the eyes of Koshetz, we witness the inner turmoil of a man whose artistic pursuits are entangled with the larger political landscape.

Co-production with Toy Cinema, Ukraine

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development

Creative Talent: Veronika Stepanchuk, Kristina Tynkevych, Dennis Foon

Supported by: Telefilm Canada

 

THE LION IN WINNIPEG

In October 1900, Winston Churchill is 25 years old… and very much in love. Unfortunately, his intended, Pamela Plowden, is also being sought after by the cream of the Empire’s eligible bachelors. Winston needs an edge. He believes that a speaking tour in North America to promote his book on his South African adventures is just the ticket: surely fortune and fame await.

Co-production with Copperheart Entertainment  http://www.copperheart.ca/

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Larry Bambrick

Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music

 

 

TELEVISION

 

HAUS OF CONTRALATA

Genre: Drama, Scripted, Limited Series

Co-production with 10109229 Manitoba Ltd.

Status: In Development  

Creative Talent: Anjali Sandhu (creator), Amber-Sekowan Daniels (Story Editor)

Supported by: Canada Media Fund

 

THE HARDWAY

The Hardway brothers, one a former cop, the other a former criminal, solve crime while running a PI firm/repo business/bail bonds/you name it fixer service in their small town.

Genre: Procedural, Scripted

Status: In Development

Creative Talent: Richard Leacock, Viv Leacock

 

SINS

A taut procedural drama following a warring family of lawyers working both sides of notorious and dramatic whistleblower cases.

Genre: Legal Procedural, Scripted

Status: In Development

Creative Talent: Brendan Howley, Ron Hikel

 

SUSPICIOUS BITCHES

A reclusive ex-homicide detective, a morally ambiguous human rights lawyer and a bullish young stuntwoman solve crimes in their sunny, gated community while investigating the disappearance of the douchebag who connects them all. Suspicious Bitches is a one-hour procedural that examines female trauma with a light touch.

Genre: Light procedural, Scripted

Status: In Development

Creative Talent: Diana Frances, Kate Hewlett

Supported by: Manitoba Film and Music

 

THE SQUEEZE

When recently divorced Georgia moves back into her childhood home from Vancouver with her teenage daughter Emery, she butts heads with her overbearing and agoraphobic mom Lydia and struggles to stay connected to Emery who is navigating her own journey with her girlfriend Jasmine.

Genre: Comedy, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Tessa Emery 

 

WINNIPEG STREETS

When a family of Syrian refugees opens a café in the West End of Winnipeg, they quickly find themselves the centre of an eclectic makeshift community of cultures.

Co-production with Snow Angel Films Inc. 

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Nilufer Rahman

Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Manitoba Film and Music

 

 

WITH KISTIKAN PICTURES INC

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tina Keeper

 

FEATURES

LUMINOUS

Co-production with JJNeepinFilms Inc.

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: JJ Neepin, Justina Neepin

Supported by: Telefilm Canada, Manitoba Film and Music

 

 

TELEVISION

 

THE REDS

** IN DEVELOPMENT WITH BELL MEDIA INC. **

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development 

Creative Talent: Tina Keeper, Vanessa Loewen, Jennifer Beasley

Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Bell Media Inc. 

 

VANILLA

Co-production with Code Breaker Films Inc. 

Genre: Drama, Scripted

Status: In Development

Creative Talent: Sage Daniels, Anthony Q Farrell

Supported by: Canada Media Fund, Manitoba Film and Music